A Perfect Spy
Condition: SECONDHAND
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Edition: 1st ed.,
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: Very good
Pages: Good
Markings: No markings
Widely regarded as John le Carré's most personal and psychologically rich novel, A Perfect Spy stands as a masterwork of espionage fiction that chronicles the life and unraveling of Magnus Pym, a high-ranking British intelligence officer who has vanished without a trace. Told through a mosaic of perspectives — including the desperate search mounted by his MI6 colleagues and the confessional memoir Magnus writes in hiding — the narrative uncovers how a childhood defined by a charming, con-man father shaped a man uniquely suited, and uniquely doomed, to a life of deception. Le Carré argues, with devastating precision, that the perfect spy is not forged by ideology or patriotism, but by a lifelong habit of becoming whatever others need him to be. The tone is at once intimate and elegiac, blending the taut mechanics of a thriller with the emotional depth of a literary novel about identity, loyalty, and betrayal. A Perfect Spy remains an essential achievement in twentieth-century fiction, as much a portrait of a fractured self as it is a story of Cold War intrigue.
Author: John Le Carré
Format: Hardback
Published: 1986, Hodder & Stoughton
Genre: Cold war & espionage
Edition: 1st ed.,
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: Very good
Pages: Good
Markings: No markings
Widely regarded as John le Carré's most personal and psychologically rich novel, A Perfect Spy stands as a masterwork of espionage fiction that chronicles the life and unraveling of Magnus Pym, a high-ranking British intelligence officer who has vanished without a trace. Told through a mosaic of perspectives — including the desperate search mounted by his MI6 colleagues and the confessional memoir Magnus writes in hiding — the narrative uncovers how a childhood defined by a charming, con-man father shaped a man uniquely suited, and uniquely doomed, to a life of deception. Le Carré argues, with devastating precision, that the perfect spy is not forged by ideology or patriotism, but by a lifelong habit of becoming whatever others need him to be. The tone is at once intimate and elegiac, blending the taut mechanics of a thriller with the emotional depth of a literary novel about identity, loyalty, and betrayal. A Perfect Spy remains an essential achievement in twentieth-century fiction, as much a portrait of a fractured self as it is a story of Cold War intrigue.